Poll: Majority Of Democrats, Minorities, And Middle-Income Voters Want A Federal Bailout For Detroit

OF COURSE THEY DO!!!

In the wake of the city of Detroit filing for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy, the question of whether or not the federal government should bail out the city has resulted in a fierce political debate. According to a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday, a narrow majority of self-described Democrats favor a federal bailout for Detroit while self-identified Republicans and independents strongly oppose a bailout. Minority voters and those making less than $50,000 also favor a federal bailout of the city. 

“Do you think that there should or should not be a federal government bailout of Detroit?” Quinnipiac asked respondents.

A total of 57 percent of all registered voters oppose a federal bailout for the Motor City, while 33 percent would support that measure. A majority – 51 percent – of Democrats think that the federal government should bail out the city, while only 18 percent of Republicans and 28 percent of independents agree.

RELATED: Breaking: Judge Rules Detroit Bankruptcy Can Move Forward

65 percent of independents and 73 percent of Republicans think the city should work out its financial problems on its own. They are joined by 35 percent of Democrats.

A majority of men and women agree that Detroit should not receive a bailout, but the results differ dramatically along racial lines. 63 percent of white voters say Detroit should not receive a bailout while 57 percent of black voters and 48 percent of Hispanic voters believe Washington should bail the city out.

While a plurality or a majority of voters across all age groups oppose a federal bailout for the Motor City, a majority of voters making under $50,000 per year believe a bailout should be in the offing for the city. Those voters making more than $50,000 per year oppose a bailout.

This poll was conducted from July 28 – 31 of 1,468 registered voters with a margin of +/- 2.6 percent.

Via: Mediaite

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New Americans for Prosperity Ad: Doctors ‘Worried’ about Obamacare

AFP launches biggest ad buy of the year in Va., Ohio, featuring critical doctors

A top conservative nonprofit group is airing a television ad this week that aims to drive home what the group says are potentially catastrophic consequences of the Affordable Care Act for the nation’s doctors.

Americans for Prosperity, which took out the seven figure ad buy this week, says the campaign is an attempt to relay the personal consequences of Obamacare, as the law is commonly known.

The ad, titled “Doctor Questions,” features Dr. Mary Ellen Gallagher, a family doctor and pediatrician. “I’ve treated sick kids for 15 years,” Gallagher says. “Obamacare has me worried.”

“Now I wonder, can I still work with parents to decide what’s best for their kids, or will the government be in the middle of things?” she asks.

The spot, which will air in Ohio and Virginia, is AFP’s largest ad buy of the year, and the second in a series that AFP spokesman Levi Russell said is designed to convey the law’s defects on a personal, emotional level.

“Obamacare is going to result in far more anecdotes and personal testimonies of its problems – the increased costs and the diminished choice and the regulatory strains – than it will positive stories,” Levi said.

“I think that we need to show what the real impact is on people,” he added.

Health care policy experts said the law’s expected effects on the nation’s doctors could be disastrous, but have not received much attention.

“Obamacare’s implementation is already pushing doctors in small practices toward shutting down, seeking early retirement, or moving into larger practices with the infrastructure to handle the bureaucratic burdens and reporting requirements,” said Ben Domenech, the managing editor of Health Care News at the Heartland Institute.

Via: WFB

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House Republicans feel summer recess heat on immigration

House Republicans are facing heavy pressure from both sides of the immigration debate as they return to their home districts for August recess with no clear indication as to how they’ll vote on the issue.

The decision to pass comprehensive immigration reform has essentially been in the hands of the Republican-controlled House since the Democrat-led Senate passed such a bill in June.

House Republicans were under pressure before they even left their Capitol Hill offices to start the five-week recess, which is traditionally dedicated to face-to-face talks with hometown voters.

The American Federation of Government Employees sent a letter Tuesday to House lawmakers urging them not to work with senators on their “dangerous” bill.

Among the major concerns is that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is not equipped to process the potential onslaught of new applications.

Another is that the Obama administration might implement immigration law passed by Congress “in a fashion of its own choosing,” considering that it bypassed Congress last summer by stopping the deportation of young, law-abiding immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents or others, the union letter suggests.

The Senate bill includes billions of dollars for border security, new workplace enforcement requirements, a revamped legal immigration system and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally.

Many House Republicans oppose granting citizenship to people who crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas. And GOP leaders have already rejected the Senate bill, instead proceeding with narrow, single-issue bills, starting with border security.

House Speaker John Boehner has said he wants a vote on immigration reform.

However, before leaving Washington, Republican leadership also appeared more focused on repealing or defunding ObamaCare, to perhaps avoid the rancorous kind of town-hall style meetings over health care that took place in summer 2009.

Via: Fox News

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American Democrats on a Marxist March Through Other Nations

American Democrat Party now on a worldwide roll, Marxist march through our institutions has changed to the Marxist march through our nations

America’s Marxist-loving Democrats are on a roll.  The Dem roll, which has effectively frightened almost the entire Republican Party into quivering RINO jello, is spreading its tentacles all the way across the pond to Britain.

AP reports that Britain’s governing Conservatives have hired Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager, to advise them ahead of the 2015 generalelection.

Heads up, Nigel Farage.

Messina was Obama’s national chief of staff for the 2008 presidential campaign and the president’s campaign manager in 2012.  His organizational flair and social media strategy have been credited for helping secure Obama’s re-election.

Messina is now chairman of a nonprofit called Organizing for Action and head of consulting firm The Messina Group.  And you can bet the farm that his Organizing for Action wasn’t held back from charitable status by the IRS.

“Messina said Friday that he had “long admired Prime Minister (David) Cameron” and would be offering the Conservatives “strategic campaign advice”.  He said he would remain based in the United Sates and would not manage day-to-day political operations. (Washington Post, August 2, 2013)

Britain is currently governed by wobbly Conservatives in coalition with the Liberal Democrats,  but with Obama campaign team help, Conservatives seek to win a parliamentary majority in 2015.

While the British economy still staggers from a 2008 global financial crisis clinging recession, ‘Conservative’  Prime Minister David Cameron has recently vowed to “export” Same Sex Marriage around the world

Via: Canada Free Press

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HERITAGE FOUNDATION: WH 'FLOUTING THE LAW' WITH OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES FOR CONGRESS

Politico reported that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will issue a ruling next week that will allow the federal government to subsidize the insurance plans Congressmen and their aides will be forced to buy on government healthcare exchanges due to Obamacare. 

The news came just hours after the Heritage Foundation released an embargoed study to reporters that found there was no legal way for the administration to offer subsidies for Members of Congress and their aides without passing a legislative "fix."

The Obama administration may have tried to preempt the release of that study; one of the study's co-authors insisted to Breitbart News on Friday that no matter how creative the Obama administration gets, there does not seem to be a legal manner in which the federal government can grant the Obamacare subsidies. 

Ed Haislmaier and Robert E. Moffitt, both of whom are Senior Research Fellows in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, and Joseph A. Morris, an attorney in private practice who served as General Counsel of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 1981 to 1985, co-authored the study, titled, "Congress in the Obamacare Trap: No Easy Escape."

Haislmaier emphasized to Breitbart News that "we don't see a legal avenue, no matter how creative, for them."

"We don't know what they will come out with, or how they will try to to justify it," he told Breitbart News. "If they do produce, then we will have a regulation to dissect."

As the Heritage Foundation's Rob Bluey wrote on "The Foundry," it is indeed curious that "word of the Obama Administration 'solving' Congress’ problem was suddenly leaked to a couple reporters at 9 p.m. — just hours before the release of Heritage’s report (embargoed copies of which had been given to the media)."

The Administration’s strategy appears to be one of deliberately flouting the law, in the belief that it can get away with it because Congress will be the beneficiary and the American public won’t catch on to what they are doing. If the Administration really thinks it has a legal way under Obamacare for the federal government to continuing paying for the health care of members of Congress and their staff, why didn’t they issue the regulations at any point over the last three years?

As the Heritage study noted, just ten days after Obamacare passed, the Congressional Research Service issued a memo detailing the problems with the provision.

Via: Breitbart

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